Algebraic geometry talks: Spring 2012

The Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Tuesdays at 4:00 in Herman Brown 227

January 10 David Anderson, U. Washington
Special Colloquium
Okounkov bodies: from algebraic to convex geometry
January 17 no meeting
January 24 no meeting
January 31 Alexander Duncan, UCLA Versal Varieties with a Twist
February 7 Anand Deopurkar, Harvard Alternate compactifications of Hurwitz spaces
February 14 Letao Zhang, Rice Modular forms and special cubic fourfolds
February 21 Radu Laza, Stony Brook Semi-algebraic horizontal subvarieties of Calabi-Yau type
February 28 no meeting spring break
March 6 Ekin Ozman, U. Texas Twisting Modular Curves
March 13 no meeting
March 20 Benjamin Bakker, NYU Lagrangian hyperplanes in holomorphic symplectic varieties
March 27 Bridget Franklin thesis defense
April 3 Brian Lehmann, Rice Duality for the movable cone
April 10 Elizabeth Dan-Cohen, LSU A Koszul category of representations of finitary Lie algebras
April 17
April 27-29 Texas Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Talks from the Fall 2011 semester